Those old p4ish systems you are talking about would burn the yearly power consumption of a pi in a week or so. If you run that for a year, the Pi ends up costing a small fraction as much and its silent. That and the possibility of battery power makes the Pi 'run circles' around such old systems for a large portion of the target audience. <div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 21, 2012 9:15 PM, "STeve Andre'" <<a href="mailto:andres@msu.edu">andres@msu.edu</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> OK, I'm neglecting the cool factor, nerd that I am. I see your point! --STeve Andre' On 04/21/12 21:11, Don Bosman wrote: <blockquote type="cite"> I'm one of the Craig's list advertisers trying to get $50.00 for machines that can run circles around this little item. The coolness factor is involved with the Raspberry Pi. Bragging rights for "I'm getting something you haven't" is huge. My son is actually enthusiastic about the Pi. I'm hoping that will take him somewhere. Don Bosman On 4/21/2012 9:05 PM, STeve Andre' wrote: <blockquote type="cite"> This is most cool! I will point out however, that $50 can buy a used Dell that will run circles around this unit, with the possible exception of </blockquote> <fieldset></fieldset> <pre>_______________________________________________ linux-user mailing list <a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu" target="_blank">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a> <a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user" target="_blank">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user</a> </pre> </blockquote> </div> _______________________________________________ linux-user mailing list <a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a> <a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user" target="_blank">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user</a> </blockquote></div>